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serious-mindedness

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Synonyms and Antonyms of serious-mindedness

a mental state free of jesting or trifling

She approached the task with her usual serious-mindedness.

Synonyms of serious-mindedness

earnest, earnestness, graveness, gravity, intentness, seriousness, soberness, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, staidness

Words Related to serious-mindedness

gravitas, humorlessness

decisiveness, deliberation, determination, firmness, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolve

absorption, attentiveness, concentration, engrossment, enthrallment, immersion, intensity

Near Antonyms of serious-mindedness

lightness, shallowness, superficiality

dalliance, dilettantism

cheerfulness, gaiety (also gayety), glee, high-spiritedness, merriment, mirth

Antonyms of serious-mindedness

facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, play, unseriousness

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